UCL scientists are part of a team using NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn, that have found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This finding is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. Their results are reported in the journal ‘Science’.

The Wellcome Trust will invest £4 million over three years from its Seeding Drug Discovery Initiative into a programme to develop UCL’s patented series of selective DDAH inhibitors for use in treating sepsis.

In the ever more complex world of computer games, developers are constantly looking for new ways to make the playing experience more life-like. One problem that had remained unsolved was how to quickly simulate the gradation of shadows caused by indirect light bouncing off objects – until a recent breakthrough by researchers at UCL Computer Science.

A screening of ‘Moolaadé’, an award-winning film addressing female genital mutilation, will take place on 18 March 2008, as part of the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology’s Hidden Histories project.

Professor Stefaan Simons (UCL Chemical Engineering), UCL’s Special Advisor on Kazakhstan and Director of the UCL Centre for CO2 Technology, has been awarded a medal for services to education in Kazakhstan by the Kazakh Minister of Education & Science, Mr Zhanseit Tuimebayev.

UCL Business (UCLB) has announced the sale of Stanmore Implants Worldwide (SIW) for around £10 million.

A team of UCL scientists has identified a combination of genes in a species of monkey that protects against retroviruses such as HIV. The discovery will be used to develop a gene therapy for HIV/AIDS in humans.